When was the last formal duel?

[bup]

By formal, I mean following the code duello and similar codes of etiquette, which resulted in a ritualized, scheduled duel with each dueler bringing a second.

It continued after it was illegal in most places.

Does anybody know when the last one was, and who the participants were?

[engineer_comp_geek]

Scanning down Wikipedia’s list of duels it looks like the last on their list was in 1952.

1952: Chile. Then-senator Salvador Allende and his colleague Raúl Rettig (later president of Chile and head of a commission that investigated human rights violations committed during the 1973–1990 military rule in Chile, respectively), agreed to fire one shot on each other and both failed.[19] At that time duelling was already illegal in Chile.

List of duels

[mbh]

The last duel in France took place in 1967 when Gaston Defferre insulted René Ribière at the French parliament and was subsequently challenged to a duel fought with swords. René Ribière lost the duel, having been wounded twice. He escaped relatively uninjured, however

from Duel - Wikipedia